Advanced Analytics and Visualisation for Biology Big Data

The scientific field will soon overtake Astrophysics as the major producer of data within the scientific domain. Not only is this data large, it is also complex and has many different forms of data that need to be represented together intuitively so a user can discover knowledge. Therefore, biological data represents a visualization challenge because of complexity, size and diversity; additionally, the analytic algorithms need to be designed with ""thinking outside the box"" while grounded in concepts that the user can understand.
This talk will present the program Vortex [Dotmatics Ltd] that has incorporated multiple biological visualization that can handle multiple data types together and allow interactive manipulation of this data on the scale of genomes on the standard user laptop. The program additionally integrates biology with a multitude of data types including advanced chemical analytics. The talk will also show how multiple data reduction analytical techniques have been integrated to enable users both visualize information and discover knowledge within biology. This covers the concepts of hypothesis testing and discovery mining and how this is integrated within graphical representations that are simple to understand by easy to manipulate and work with.

Robert D. Brown

VP Product MarketingDotmatics Inc

Rob Brown is VP of Global Informatics for Dotmatics - a role that involves working closely with customers to understand their informatics needs. He previously spent 10 years at Accelrys where is he was responsible for the product marketing teams for cheminformatics, and bioinformatics for the Life Sciences industries. Prior to its acquisition by Accelrys, Rob was the Director of Product Marketing for Pipeline Pilot at Scitegic and also held positions at Molecuar Simulations and Abbott Laboratories. Rob received his PhD in Cheminformatics from the University of Sheffield, UK under the direction of Prof Peter Willett.